Jammu 1947: gone but not forgotten

.:.BY Khalid Hasan

The 1947 massacre of the Muslims of Jammu city, its neighbouring areas and the farther reaches of the province, remains one of the most poorly documented of the human tragedies with which the subcontinent’s major religious communities greeted independence. With the passing of years, the memory of those who were killed has all but faded.
Every year, the Muslims of Jammu who remain or those of their children who still care, mark the anniversary of the great Jammu killings. But these sombre gatherings have diminished with time. In another ten or twenty years, no one will remember the Muslims of Jammu who were killed because they were helpless before an organised force made up of the RSS, the Maharaja’s own forces and “help” from Punjab’s Sikh States.

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Massacre of Jammu Muslims, November 1947

“Jammu Massacre 06 November, 1947 and mass migration to Pakistan”
It is one of the least known genocides in modern history. It was carried out with such a precision that it is difficult to find its traces, except in the memories of the survivors, and the tales of horror they passed on to their next generations. Around 500,000 Muslims were killed with military precision. It was such an operation that language lacks words to express this offence of demolition of human being.
Though the targeted killing had already started in Jammu around mid July 1947, the operation got a fillip immediately after a fleeing Maharaja Hari Singh and his wife reached Jammu on 26 October 1947. An organised carnage was orchestrated to kill Muslims, wherever found or spotted in Jammu.

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South Kashmir: Top guerrilla Abu Qasim killed in gun-fight

Srinagar: A top  guerrilla commander Abu Qasim was killed today in a gun-fight with Indian Army, Police and CRPF at Khandaypora of Kulgam.

Top police official of the teritory told told media that our most wanted militant in Jammu and Kashmir for the last over five years, Qasim was killed in gun-fight at Khandaypora Kulgam.
The slain militant was a hi-profile militant, active in valley

October 27: Kashmir shuts to protest the landing of Indian Army in Valley

Srinagar: Kashmir is observing shutdown on Pro-freedom leaders call Tuesday against the landing of Indian army on this day in 1947.
Trade activities remain crippled around valley. Public transport remained off the road. It is pertinent to mention here that on this day in 1947, Delhi airlifted its forces to Srinagar after the last monarch of Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh “singed the conditional Instrument of Accession” with India.

Fighters laid to rest in south Kashmir, thousands attend funerals

Pulwama: Thousands of people today participated in the the funeral prayers of two fightes, who were killed in a gunfight with government forces on Monday.

Since early morning, hundreds of people from Gadoora, Newa, Eshmandur, Wahibug, Zadoora, Gusoo, Loswani and other adjoining areas assembled in Karimabad, the native village of Hizb militant Afaq Ullah Bhat, who aong with his associate Abdul Manan Dar was killed in an encounter in Drabgam area of Rajpora in Shopian, witnesses told Kashmir Reader, witnesses said.

Kashmir killings: Protests, shelling in Hyderpora

Srinagar: Intense clashes and protests were reported from uptown Hyderpora area post Friday prayers today.

Syed Ali Geelani, Hurriyat (g) chairman, had called for protests today against thrashing of JKLF chief Muhammad Yasin Malik and detention of his amalgam leaders.

1993 Bijbehara massacre: when playground was turned into a graveyard by BSF

Srinagar: Way back 22 years ago on this day the Children’s park, in New Colony area of south Kashmir’s Bijbehara town, was turned into a graveyard when bullet-riddled bodies of as many as 32 people, including 25 teenage students had to be buried there.

The slain, all civilians, were killed in the infamous Bijbehara Massacre of 1993, when Border Security Force (BSF) personnel from 74 Battalion opened fire on unarmed demonstrators protesting against the siege of Dargah in Hazratbal, Srinagar.

The number of dead remains disputed with different national and International agencies putting the number between 35 and 52. More than 200 others were injured during the firing, leaving many of them handicapped for the rest of their life.